Bernanke: ‘The Unemployment Rate Is Just Not Going Down’ Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke said in an interview with 60 Minutes: “The unemployment rate is just not going down. Unemployment is just about the same as it was in mid-2009, when the economy started growing. So, that’s a major concern. And it looks that at current rates, that it may take some years before the unemployment rate is back down to more normal levels.”
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